Tax Security Statement

Your Tax Security Is Important To Us

Protecting your tax and financial and other sensitive information is our utmost concern. This is especially true when exchanging and managing documents online. Regardless of size, all accounting firms must comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999.

The GLBA was enacted to protect consumers’ private financial information and governs the collection and disclosure of clients’ financial information by CPAs, enrolled agents, accountants and tax preparers. It includes severe civil and criminal penalties for noncompliance.

The Tax Samaritan Client Portal allows you to safely and conveniently exchange sensitive documents with us. Your data is protected in extremely secure environments. All these advanced security measures are compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, as required by law.

Physical access to the servers is further restricted by Dual Factor Authentication Barriers.

Development and Implementation of Customer Information Security Program

Applicable Sections

Support

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Access controls on customer information systems, including controls to authenticate and permit access only to authorized individuals and controls to prevent employees from providing customer information to unauthorized individuals who may seek to obtain this information through fraudulent means.

Support reps and managers are first authenticated at the Tax Samaritan website by providing their email addresses and passwords.

Administrators control the feature set of individual users or groups to restrict such features as File Transfer.

Representatives must be approved and set up by an administrator before they can access client computers.

SSL and AES encryption using 128 to 256-bit keys (depending on the browser) ensure the privacy of all remote connections. AES is a U.S. government standard algorithm and is Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) approved.

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Monitoring systems and procedures to detect actual and attempted attacks on or intrusions into customer information systems.

Tax Samaritan generates usage/connection logs that can be reviewed for auditing purposes. In addition, Tax Samaritan operates an intrusion detection system on its website and networks.

Encryption

Secured Socked Layer (SSL) Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption using 128 to 256-bit keys ensures the security and privacy of the files and information transmitted through and stored in the Document Vault and Firm Portal. 256-bit encryption is the highest available using the Advanced Encryption Standard.

To decipher a 256-bit SSL communication requires generating the proper decoding key out of the 2256 possible values, rendering the encrypted data practically impervious to intrusion. Even by systematically trying every possible key combination, cracking at 256-bit encryption is computationally unfeasible.

Additional Security Measures

In addition to the security measures applied to the Client Portal, there are a number of measures applied across all servers in the Tax Samaritan system.

These measures are also fully compliant with both Sarbanes-Oxley and Gramm-Leach-Bliley:

Randall Brody is a registered representative with the following registrations (Series 7 & 66) and can transact business with clients in NV, CO & VA. Randall Brody is also an investment adviser agent licensed in NV & VA. If you are not a resident of the states noted above, all investment-related information on this site is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation or offer to sell securities or investment advisory services over the internet.

Securities and Advisory Services offered through Individual Asset Management, Inc. (IAM), Member SIPC, 750 Menlo Avenue, Suite 200, Menlo Park, California, USA 94025, (415) 358-0138. Investments & Insurance Products: (1) Are not insured by the FDIC or any federal government agency, (2) Are not deposits of or guaranteed by the bank or any bank affiliate, (3) May lose value. Tax Samaritan is not a registered broker/dealer or registered investment advisory firm. Check the background of this investment professional on FINRA's BrokerCheck.